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No L 224/20 Official Journal of the European Communities 15 . 8 . 78

COMMISSION REGULATION ( EEC) No 1964/78 of 11 August 1978 re-establishing the levying of customs duties on basketwork, etc., falling within heading No 46.03 and originating in Yugoslavia and the Philippines, to which the preferential tariff arrangements set out in Regulation (EEC) No 2705/77 apply

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN countries or territories, with the exception of those COMMUNITIES, listed in Annex C thereto, once the relevant Commu­ nity amount has been reached ;

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Whereas, in respect of basketwork, etc., the ceiling, Economic Community, calculated as indicated above, should be 1 5 205 000 units of account, and therefore the maximum amount is 3 041 000 units of account ; whereas, on 1 August Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 1978 , the amounts of imports into the Community of 2705/77 of 28 November 1977 establishing preferen­ basketwork, etc., originating in Yugoslavia and the tial tariffs in respect of certain products originating in Philippines, countries covered by preferential tariff developing countries ('), and in particular Article 4 (2) arrangements, reached that maximum amount ; thereof, whereas, bearing in mind the objectives of Regulation (EEC) No 2705/77 which provides that maximum amounts should not be exceeded, customs duties Whereas Article 1 (3) and (4) of that Regulation should be re-established in respect of the products in provides that customs duties may, for each category of question in relation to Yugoslavia and the Philippines, products, be suspended up to a Community ceiling, expressed in units of account, which will be equal — with the exception of certain products the value of the ceilings for which is given in Annex A thereto — to the sum arrived at by adding together the value of the HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : products in question imported cif into the Commu­ nity in 1974 and coming from countries and territo­ ries covered by those arrangements, but not including products coming from countries and territories already Article 1 covered by various preferential tariff arrangements esta­ blished by the Community, and 5 % of the value of 1975 cif imports coming from other countries and From 18 August 1978 , the levying of customs duties, from countries and territories already covered by such suspended in pursuance of Regulation (EEC) No arrangements ; whereas, however, the ceiling resulting 2705/77, shall be re-established in respect of the from the sum of this addition may in no case exceed following products, imported into the Community 225 % of the preferential ceiling open for 1976 ; and originating in Yugoslavia and the Philippines :

CCT Whereas, having regard to that ceiling, the amounts heading Description . No for products originating in any one of the countries or territories listed in Annex B to that Regulation should be within a maximum Community amount repre­ 46.03 Basketwork, wickerwork and other articles senting 50 % of that ceiling, with the exception of of playing materials, made directly to certain products for which the maximum amount is to shape ; articles made up from goods falling within heading No 46.02 ; articles of be reduced to the percentage indicated in Annex A loofah thereto ; whereas, for these products, this reduced percentage will be 20 % ;

Whereas Article 2 (2) and (3) of « that Regulation Article 2 provides that the levying of customs duties may be re-established at any time in respect of imports of the products in question originating in any of the said This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day following its publication in the Official Journal of (!) OJ No L 324, 19 . 12. 1977, p. 23 . the European Communities.

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This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States .

Done at Brussels, 11 August 1978 . For the Commission fitienne DAVIGNON

Member of the Commission